Spot the AlvaForm Fit Mannequins on ‘Next in Fashion’
30-01-2020
Alvanon, the global innovations company specialising in fit and sizing for the apparel industry, have previously provided Fashion-Enter / FashionCapital bursaries for promising students, as well as donating a range of Alfaform technical fit mannequins to our Fashion Technology and Tailoring Academies. The extensive range of ex-demo stock mannequins, includes various sized women, men, children and maternity forms, perfect for ensuring best fit practices. It’s generous donations like this that really help ensure our learning facilities are well equipped and the best they can be.
Spot the AlvaForms on TV! A selection of AlvaForm fit mannequins feature in Netflix’s latest original series, ‘Next in Fashion’, a competition dedicated to finding the next big name in design. The series began streaming on Netflix yesterday (January 29th 2020).
Netflix’s ‘Next in Fashion’ competition will give some of the best and most innovative ‘undiscovered’ design talent an opportunity to become the next big name in fashion. Alvanon donated 35 fit forms to the series including 31 women’s (US 2-20/EU 32-50) and four men’s (US 36-38/EU 46-48). The forms represent a ‘real’ spectrum of body shapes and sizes that will help contestants fit their designs, quickly and accurately, allowing them to focus on the challenges.
Co-hosted by fashion designer and TV personality Tan France, of Queer Eye fame, and global style icon Alex Chung, ‘Next in Fashion’ began with 18 designers facing a series of challenges centering on a different trend or design style that has influenced the world of fashion.
Next in Fashion Contestants: Adolfo Sanchez, Claire Davis, Angel Chen, Minju Kim, Ashton Hirota, Marco Morante, Charles Lu, Angelo Cruciani, Daniel Fletcher, Carli Pearson, Hayley Scanlan, Julian Woodhouse, Isaac Saqib, Nasheli Ortiz-Gonzalez, Kianga “Kiki” Peterson, Farai Simoyi-Agbede, Lorena Saravia Butcher, Narresh Kukreja
Guest Judges include: Eva Chen, Elizabeth Stewart, Monique Lhuillier, Elizabeth von der Goltz, Prabal Gurung, Phillip Lim, Jason Bolden, Kerby Jean-Raymond, Adriana Lima, Christopher Kane, Beth Ditto, Josefine Aberg, “Dao”- Yi Chow, Maxwell Osborne, and Tommy Hilfiger.
Link to Next in Fashion
(Images: Netflix, Next In Fashion, Alvanon)
